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Jamini Roy
(1887 - 1972)

Untitled



Born in 1887 in a small village in Beliatore, Bankura district, West Bengal, Jamini Roy joined the Government School of Art, Kolkata in 1903. He began his career by painting in the Post-Impressionist genre of landscapes and portraits, very much in keeping with his training in a British academic system. Yet, by 1925, Roy had begun experimenting along the lines of popular bazaar paintings sold outside the Kalighat temple in Kolkata. By the early...



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  Lot 3 of 55  

SPRING LIVE AUCTION
13 MARCH 2024

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Winning Bid
Rs 18,00,000
$21,951

(Inclusive of Buyer's Premium)


ARTWORK DETAILS

Jamini Roy
Untitled

Signed indistinctly in Bengali (lower right)
Tempera on cloth
14.25 x 24.5 in (36 x 62.5 cm)

NON-EXPORTABLE NATIONAL ART TREASURE

PROVENANCE
Acquired before 1946 by Lt. Louis Hageman while flying "The Hump" during World War II
("The Hump" was a dangerous route taken by Allied pilots in World War II to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and US Army Air Forces based in China.)
Thence by descent
Freeman's, Philadelphia, 3 November 2013, lot 65
Private Collection, New Delhi

EXHIBITED
Ways of Seeing Women Artists | Women as Muse, New Delhi: The Claridges, 12 February – 7 March 2021

PUBLISHED
Ways of Seeing Women Artists | Women as Muse, New Delhi: DAG, 2021, p. 176 (illustrated)

Category: Painting
Style: Abstract


 









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